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 Date: 5 May 2021

 Authors: Richard W. Frank and Ferran Martinez-i-Coma 

 Title: Correlates of Voter Turnout

 Journal: Political Behavior

 Contact Information: Richard Frank <richard.frank @ anu.edu.au>

  
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  # A bit of background #		
  
     - These do files were created and run using Stata 14 - 16.1 on a 2016 MacBook Pro or an Amazon AWS 2019 Windows Server instance. 
     - Most files require changing the working directory to the location of the downloaded replication data.
     - The files that run EBA models are broken up into several do files for each model specification. This was done so that models could be run simultaneously across multiple AWS instances.
     - The data files generated by the extreme bounds models are currently (as a whole) over 88GB in size. 
     - Therefore, I did not think it practical to upload all to Dataverse. The do files below should generate results files identical to ours. If you are interested in a particular results data file, send me (Richard) an email, and I can email you Dropbox link to it.  
     - Thanks for your interest in this research, and we hope you find these replication files useful!


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FM_data_merging.do -- This file merges data from various sources into one dataset used for the analysis files below. 
cow.do -- This file creates Correlates of War country codes.
oecd.do -- This file creates a variable coding OECD membership.
wb_region.do -- This file creates World Bank region codes.
turnout_eba_lag.dta -- This is the merged data created by the do file above and used in the do files below.


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Figure_1.do -- This file creates Figure 1 
Figure_2.do -- This file creates Figure 2 
Figure_3.do -- This file creates Figure 3 


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summary_table.do -- Generates summary statistics used in Tables 2-4

Table_A7 folder -- Do files to run and summarize models reported in Table A7
Table_A8 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A8
Table_A9 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A9
Table_A10 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A10
Table_A11 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A11
Table_A12 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A12
Table_A13 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A13
Table_A14 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Table A14
Table_A15 folder -- Do file to create compulsory voting summary table  
Table_A16 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Tables A16 and A20
Table_A17 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Tables A17 and A21
Table_A18 folder -- Do file to run and summarize models reported in Tables A18 and A22

 

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